"Transport is my element. As far back as I can remember, and even before that perhaps, I seemed to hear the sound of wheels. For me transport is a symbol of freedom and change, and it's impossible to imagine my job without it. Every station, every stop, every second sees the banal and the exceptional come together. We move... More...

"At the age of twenty-two I was sent to Saigon to cover the war as a photojournalist. I was too late for Indochina, and too early for Vietnam. Muggers robbed me on my arrival, and I lived in a small hotel by the river. I drove towards the front in an old Citroën. I think I was happy. I returned some years later. It was for another war, and the famous reporters had left. The streets were full of GIs... More...

American swing and bebop trumpeter Clark Terry passed away today. (21 February, 2015.) Born on 14 December 1920, he played with Count Basie (1948–1951), Duke Ellington (1951–1959) and Quincy Jones (1960). He is among the most recorded of jazz musicians.

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“…Long ago, painting was the story telling medium.Today, at least for us, it is photography. We turned to five master lensmen, as passionate about their art as we are about our craft. Their unique, always surprising gaze is full of passion and brings different worlds together: the hard work and the excellence of the merino wool Australian farms, the industrial process with a human touch in our factories... More...

In the summer of 1999, when he was only 17, Sohrab Hura's mother was diagnosed with acute paranoid schizophrenia.

"Life is Elsewhere is a journal of my life, my family, my love, my friends, my travels, my sheer need to experience all that is about to disappear and so in a way I’m attempting to connect my own life with the world that I see with a hope to find my reality in it. Life is Elsewhere is... More...

Magnum Photos is a photographic cooperative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer members. With powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities.